Posted on 11/05/2014 9:21:37 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Andrew Romano of Yahoo News believes Hillary Clinton was the big winner of last nights election. Liberals are obviously desperate to latch onto something positive from last night, even if they have to make it up. Last night’s Republican wave wasn’t so much about the Republicans making great arguments and winning the country over. It was a repudiation of the Democrats, President Obama in particular. Because we have only two major parties, the Republicans benefited from the repudiation of the Democrats by default. The left is hoping that the repudiation was limited to Obama and not the entire party. If the country simply dislikes Obama, Hillary Clinton will be in prime position to win the White House in 2016.
The problem though is that Hillary had her own string of defeats in 2014. Kentucky Democrat Alison Grimes did everything she could to distance herself from Obama while she embraced Hillary. Grimes lost by 15. She campaigned for Sen. Bruce Braley in Iowa. Braley lost by 8.5. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton campaigned for Mark Pryor in their old Arkansas stomping grounds. Pryor lost by 17 points. In other words in these key battleground Senate races Hillary did absolutely nothing to help the Democrat candidate. If one were to believe the polls over the last month, all of them were potentially winnable by the Democrats. Yet despite Hillary’s campaigning, none of the Democrats came close to winning. This includes Arkansas, a state in which the Clinton’s have been almost invincible for four decades.
Hillary is going to have a hard time separating herself from Obama. This is going to be a problem for any Democrat but it’s particularly a problem for Hillary. She served as his Secretary of State for four years, she was part of his perceived inner circle. While Hillary was infinitely better as Secretary of State than John Kerry has been, she’s going to carry Obama’s international baggage with her. Benghazi is the biggest international problem that can be attached to Hillary. All of the international issues that have cropped up over the last two years have ties to Hillary. ISIS didn’t just come about over night, they’ve been around for years. Hillary is going to have a hard time distancing herself from Obama’s foreign policy, especially so if things get progressively worse in the international world.
Even domestically Hillary is going to have a hard time distancing herself from Obama. At the end of the day, it was Hillary who argued for Obamacare in the 2008 Democrat primaries. Obama wanted single payer, Hillary wanted what was to become Obamacare. Her best argument is that she can manage it better than Obama, which is a tough argument to make in a country that opposes Obamacare by a 60% majority. She had her own “you didn’t build that” moment a few weeks ago when she declared that businesses don’t create jobs. In a country that rates the economy and jobs as the most important issues and with Obama’s policies clearly not working and/or not supported by the public, Hillary’s going to have a tough time distancing herself from Obama’s core economic philosophy.
Romano of course assumes that Hillary will not only run for President but become the Democrats nominee. Everyone assumed as such after the 2006 midterms and look how that turned out. The Republicans obviously have their own problems, not the least of which is a battle between the Tea Party and the establishment. However anyone who looks at last nights election and walks away thinking Hillary is the big winner is dreaming. Democrats are in trouble. Their leader is unpopular, they didn’t just lost the Senate last night. They lost 4 Governors races flip, including blue states such as Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois. The Republicans held onto blue or purple state Governor mansions in Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Several state legislatures turned Republican, including the New York Senate. The Democrats were beaten soundly last night across the board. This doesn’t bode well for Hillary or any other Democrat. The 2016 electorate will not be the 2012 or 2008 electorate. It will be a lot more Republican because after eight years of a Democrat in office, the country is ready for a change.
Only if the Republicans are willing to tie her to him, and they have a history of treating Hillary with Kid Gloves.
Let’s see. Hillary! campaigned for Pryor, Grimes, Hagan, Udall and Coakley. Yeah. She was a real winner.
Hillary Clinton’s scorecard:
Alison Lundergan Grimes, KY-Sen: Loss.
Michelle Nunn, GA-Sen: Loss.
Mark Pryor, AR-Sen: Loss.
Al Franken, MN-Sen: Win.
Gary Peters, MI-Sen: Win.
Tom Wolf, PA-Gov: Win.
Mark Udall, CO-Sen: Loss.
Andrew Cuomo, NY-Gov: Win.
Jeanne Shaheen, NH-Sen: Win.
Maggie Hassan, NH-Gov: Win.
Mary Landrieu, LA-Sen: Run off.
Mark Dayton, MN-Gov: Win.
Gina Raimondo, RI-Gov: Win.
Anne Kuster, NH-Rep: Win.
Mark Schauer, MI-Gov: Loss.
Nita Lowey, NY-Rep: Win.
Bruce Braley, IA-Sen: Loss.
Pat Quinn, IL-Gov: Loss.
Carol Shea-Porter, NH-Rep: Loss.
Charlie Crist, FL-Gov: Loss.
Kay Hagan, NC-Sen: Loss.
Mike Michaud, ME-Gov: Loss.
Martha Coakley, MA-Gov: Loss.
Anthony Brown, MD-Gov: Loss.
I think we can successfully hang 0bama around her neck.
HUH????????????????
NO NO, she was one of the biggest losers. The Clintons went repeatedly into Kentucky and Arkansas to campaign and those were two of the worst showings anywhere in the country.
Now as a minority party, the Dems will tend to move towards the nuclear option, Eliz Warren.
The top three are all you need to know.
That isn’t a very good scorecard for her. Especially so in light of the fact that all of her wins come in solid blue states.
Exactly. Just about the only wins (with a couple of exceptions) where Hillary campaigned for the candidate were in places where Dems were already sure to win. In most of the high-profile, contested, senatorial or gubernatorial races, the Hillary-backed candidate lost.
Don’t think anyone agrees with the premise.
We have a leader of the Senate to elect and get rid of Mitch, we have a leader of the House to elect and get rid of the drunk crybaby, IRS, scandals, Fast and Furious, etc, etc, etc, so lets tell the Clintons to go to bed and stay there!!!
Dems will be throwing Obama under the bus for the next two years. That should be fun to watch.
Dems don’t know how to legislate or govern, all they know how to do is run for office. The next two years for democrats will be running for office and, if Obama gets in their way, they’ll run that bus right over him.
Hillary! Backer of LOSERS:
Alison Lundergan Grimes, KY-Sen: Loss.
Michelle Nunn, GA-Sen: Loss.
Mark Pryor, AR-Sen: Loss.
Mark Udall, CO-Sen: Loss.
Bruce Braley, IA-Sen: Loss.
Kay Hagan, NC-Sen: Loss.
Mary Landrieu, LA-Sen: Run off. (i.e., Loss.)
Mark Schauer, MI-Gov: Loss.
Pat Quinn, IL-Gov: Loss.
Charlie Crist, FL-Gov: Loss.
Mike Michaud, ME-Gov: Loss.
Martha Coakley, MA-Gov: Loss.
Anthony Brown, MD-Gov: Loss.
“Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.”—Baghdad Bob
Cankles needed Crist in Florida to support her voter fraud machine. She lost here. Big time.
Yahoo had that caption posted this AM. I guess Yahoo is suffering defeat hangover for their leftist friends - trying to find some light inside this long dark tunnel the progressives have dug. Oh, and I think Landrieu may get a smack down coming her way!!!!
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